BEEN PAYING ATTENTION this week?

Let’s see about that. Take our weekly news quiz and see how well the stories of the week registered in your brain.

There are no prizes, so cheating is kind of pointless. You can, however measure where you are on the animal scale of intelligence.

Deep breath, here goes…

A Pentagon Twitter account was broken into this week. What was Barack Obama giving a speech on when it happened?

E-commerce

Cyber security

ISIS

The Charlie Hebdo attacks

Richard Bruton says Ireland can have full employment by the end of which year?

2015

2016

2017

2018

There was a bomb scare at Intel's plant on Tuesday. Which Kildare town is it in?

Clane

Athy

Leixlip

Maynooth

A Jewish newspaper photoshopped which world leader out of this picture?

Enda Kenny

Angela Merkel

Mahmoud Abbas

Francois Hollande

What was the storm that battered Ireland this week dubbed?

Monica

Phoebe

Joey

Rachel

Who ruled themselves out of an independents' alliance on Wednesday?

Shane Ross

Michael Fitzmaurice

Stephen Donnelly

Lucinda Creighton

Senator Catherine Noone reported abusive tweets to the gardaí. What had she called for to be banned?

UFC

Ice Cream

Running in the yard

Soft drinks

Patrick Honohan revealed that Brian Lenihan wanted to do what the night of the bank guarantee?

Dissolve the government

Burn bondholders

Hold a referendum

Recapitalise the banks

Sinn Féin's Jonathan O'Brien told which Labour backbencher to "shut his mouth" in the Dáil this week?

Robert Dowds

Michael Connaughan

Eric Byrne

Eamonn Maloney

A robot missing since 2003 was found on Mars. What was it called?

Poodle 4

Boxer 1

Beagle 2

Labrador 3

Answer all the questions to see your result!

You scored out of !

Top Dog!

You've remembered all of this week. Fair play!

You scored out of !

Clever Cat!

You did really well. Take a well earned break and bask in your cleverness.

You scored out of !

Fintastic!

A decent display.

You scored out of !

What are ewe doing?!

Not great, was it?

You scored out of !

Turtle-y awful

Have you been living inside your shell all week?

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